LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
*A CASE FOR THE TRADE." Sir,—"While passing through a street at tjio Te Aro end of the City this evening, 'my attention was drawn to a crowd of people standing; among them two const-ablos. On going closer I saw a man stretched out oil the ground, blooding about the facn, On inquiring of a bystander as to tie cause, I was told that the man had fallen from the doorstep of an hotel near bv, also that ho was holplossly drunk. Now, sir, I consider that it is a standing disgrace to what calls itsolf "God's Oivn Country" that publicans should "bo allowed to serve a man with drink until Jjo is helpless, and escape punishment, while tlio poor wretch, who ha? paid for his drink to his sorrow, has to pay again at tlio Court or go te gaol. If the law was such that- the publican had to pay £1 for every Is. the drunk had to pay ho would be more particular in the quantity he served out to men under the influence, atid the result- would bo a large reduction iti tho number of drunks, and consequently fewer of the disgusting spectacles of beings of both sexes being lumped, off to, t'lia look-up. While reading "A Case for the Trade 1 ' on page 5 or this morning's issue, tho thought occurred to me that if "the Trade'' had taken the same pains and >gon© into figures of how many (in Wellington albne) dlninkards it had manufactured, how many hearts it had broken, how many mothers and childrenjt had deprived of food and clothes, how many women it had put 011 the streets, how many homes it had wrecked, how many accidents' and deaths it had caused, tne record would have looked so terrible that surely it oould not have' put forth one plea for its own defence on top of this.—l am, etc., G. H. S. 0. October 16, 1913.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1885, 20 October 1913, Page 11
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328LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1885, 20 October 1913, Page 11
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